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People always ask writers where they get their inspiration for new stories. The automatic answer that most often comes is, “Everywhere.”

Case in point. I was cleaning out my photo files tonight—mostly looking for unflattering pics of myself (I cull them ruthlessly!)—when I came across this one. It’s blurred. Elle James, Sylvia Day, and Jordan Summers are almost unrecognizable, and the background is overexposed. But my finger hesitated on the mouse while I contemplated deleting it.

Why? It’s creepy. And the longer I looked at it, the creepier it got. I started the old “what if” question all writers ask themselves when they start brainstorming a new project. “What if a woman takes pictures of friends in a familiar place, but the ghostly background isn’t the same one she snapped? What if she’s seeing how that same place looked fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, or five hundred?” And off my imagination went…

I’m thinking the younger skinnier thing is a must. *ggg* I already have the guy. 😉 (wg)

As for your premise, I was thinking… what if you take a picture of your friends, but when you look at the picture instead of seeing smiling faces you see something far scarier. You look up and nothing has changed with their appearance, so you take another picture figuring it’s just your camera. Unfortunately, the same gruesome creatures are staring back in the new photo. Now you have to pretend that everything is normal. 🙂 BWAAAAAA!